GAY | fn the Cambridge English Dictnary

Contents:

• GAY OLD TIME
• GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG
• GAY (ADJ.)
• THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”
• OLD FASHNED GAY
• THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–TRADNAL CHE DICTNARY
• GAY OLD TIM
• SYNONYMS OF GAY

GAY OLD TIME

Ah, what a gay old time we're havg. That was a gay old time! 3) Hey, Osr Wil, I hear ya've been havg a gay old time down at the Gentleman's Wrer club.

gay old time (untable and ununtable, plural gay old tim). 3) An event pre-datg the prent and that volved homosexual behavur. We'll have a gay old time!

GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG

See gay old time, yabba dabba doo, ed, barney, gay, JCJ. When gay old men have a gay old time.

My grandpa had a gay old time wh other grandpas my bed, daddy!

See homosexual, gay, old, time, lemonparty, goatse, tubgirl. homosexualy, sexual tert and attractn to members of one’s own sex.

GAY (ADJ.)

The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned. Homosexualy was not unmon ancient Greece and Rome, and the relatnships between adult and adolcent mal particular have bee a chief foc of Wtern classicists recent years.

THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “GAY”

Juo-Christian as well as Mlim cultur have generally perceived homosexual behavur as sful. Others—om factns wh mastream Prottantism to anizatns of Reform rabbis—have advoted, on theologil as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relatnships. Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn.

OLD FASHNED GAY

The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, for example, classified “ego-syntonic homosexualy” (the ndn of a person ntent wh his or her homosexualy) as a mental illns 1973. Nohels, some relig groups ntue to emphasize reparative therapy the attempt to “cure” homosexualy through prayer, unselg, and behavur modifitn.

Wherever opn n be eely exprsed, bat about homosexualy will likely ntue. Selected theori of homosexualy Psychologists the 19th and 20th centuri, most of whom classified homosexualy as a form of mental illns, veloped a variety of theori on s orig. It is likely that many stanc of homosexualy rult om a batn of born or nstutnal factors and environmental or social fluenc.

THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’

Together wh a growg acceptance of homosexualy as a mon exprsn of human sexualy, long-standg beliefs about homosexuals had begun to lose crence.

The stereotyp of male homosexuals as weak and effemate and lbians as mascule and aggrsive, which were wispread the Wt as recently as the 1950s and early ’60s, have largely been disrd.

) Rearchers such as Aled Ksey reported that homosexual activy was a equent pattern adolcence, among both mal and femal. The Ksey report of 1948, for example, found that 30 percent of adult Amerin mal among Ksey’s subjects had engaged some homosexual activy and that 10 percent reported that their sexual practice had been exclively homosexual for a perd of at least three years between the ag of 16 and 55.

GAY

About half as many women the study reported predomantly homosexual activy. A range of more recent surveys, ncerng predomantly homosexual behavur as well as same-genr sexual ntact adulthood, have yield rults that are both higher and lower than those intified by Ksey.

Instead of tegorizg people absolute terms as eher homosexual or heterosexual, Ksey observed a spectm of sexual activy, of which exclive orientatns of eher type make up the extrem.

Suatnal homosexual activy tends to occur environments such as prisons, where there are no opportuni for heterosexual ntact. Contemporary issu As mentned above, different societi rpond differently to homosexualy.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

Although the topic of homosexualy was ltle discsed the public fom durg the early part of the 20th century, beme a polil issue many Wtern untri durg the late 20th century.

This was particularly te the Uned Stat, where the gay rights movement is often seen as a late offshoot of var civil rights movements of the 1960s. After the 1969 Stonewall rts, which New York Cy policemen raid a gay bar and met wh staed ristance, many homosexuals were embolned to intify themselv as gay men or lbians to iends, to relativ, and even to the public at large. In much of North Ameri and wtern Europe, the heterosexual populatn beme aware of gay and lbian muni for the first time.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–TRADNAL CHE DICTNARY

Many gay men and lbians began to mand equal treatment employment practic, hog, and public policy. In rponse to their activism, many jurisdictns enacted laws banng discrimatn agast homosexuals, and an creasg number of employers Ameri and European untri agreed to offer “domtic partner” benefs siar to the health re, life surance and, some s, pensn benefs available to heterosexual married upl.

GAY OLD TIM

Although ndns for gay people had generally improved most of Europe and North Ameri at the turn of the 21st century, elsewhere the world vlence agast gay people ntued.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

In Namibia, for example, police officers were stcted to “elimate” homosexuals. Gay stunts at Jamai’s Northern Caribbean Universy were beaten, and an anti-gay group Brazil by the name of Arda Corao (“Wake Up, Dear”) was blamed for murrg several gay people. In Ecuador a gay rights group lled Quogay received so much threateng e-mail that was given support by Amnty Internatnal.

Even parts of the world where physil vlence is absent, tolerance of homosexualy often persists.

In one such stance, Albania repealed s sodomy statut 1995, and gay upl Amsterdam 2001 were legally married unr the same laws that ern heterosexual marriage (rather than unr laws that allowed them to “register” or form “domtic” partnerships).